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Period: Early 18th Century
Le Petit Tetras - Etching by Catherine Haussard - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
La Peintade is an etching realized in 1771 by Catherine Haussard.
Signed in plate.
The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la descriptio...
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Modern Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Skeleton - Etching by Catherine Haussard - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Skeleton is an etching realized in 1771 by C. Haussard.
Signed in plate.
The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabin...
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Modern Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Tetras - Etching by E. Fessard - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Tetras is an etching realized in 1771 by E. Fessard.
Signed in plate.
The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabin...
Category
Modern Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Skeleton - Etching by Louis Legrand - 1711
Located in Roma, IT
Skeleton is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807).
Signed in plate.
The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la descri...
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Modern Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Saki - Etching by Jean Charles Baquoy - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
Le Saki is an etching realized by Jean Charles Baquoy in 1771.
Signed in plate.
The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description d...
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Modern Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
La Cheveche on Petite Choutte - Etching by Carl Guttenberg - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
La Cheveche on Petite Choutte is an etching realized by Carl Guttenberg in 1771.
The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description d...
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Modern Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
La Chouette - Etching by Jacques Blanchon - 1771
Located in Roma, IT
La Chouette is an etching realized by Jacques Blanchon in 1771.
Signed in plate.
The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et partic...
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Modern Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Two military studies, a preparatory red chalk drawing by Jean-Baptiste Pater
By Jean-Baptiste Pater
Located in PARIS, FR
As Florence Ingersoll-Smouse wrote in 1921 in her book devoted to Jean-Baptiste Pater, "a painter of the Fête galante, Pater is interesting both by his intimacy with Watteau, to whom many of his works are still attributed, and by his own value as an artist.” This sanguine, full of life and spontaneity, is typical of the preparatory studies made by the painter to be used later in the composition of his paintings.
1. Jean-Baptiste Pater, pupil and disciple of Antoine Watteau
Antoine Pater, Jean-Baptiste's father, belonged to the petty bourgeoisie of Valenciennes where he worked as a merchant-sculptor. His brother Jacques was a local painter who was probably involved in his nephew's training. Born on December 29, 1695, Jean-Baptiste Pater was first trained with Jean-Baptiste Guider, a local painter whose death in 1711 was probably the reason for Jean-Baptiste’s departure alongside Watteau, who was visiting Valenciennes. Watteau's difficult character led to their separation in 1713.
Back in Valenciennes, Jean-Baptiste Pater encountered difficulties with the powerful Corporation of Saint-Luke (to which he refused to belong) which forced him to return to Paris in 1718. He reconciled with Watteau shortly before his death (on July 18th 1721), inherited the commissions that Watteau had been unable to fulfil and completed some of his paintings.
Pater was accepted by the Académie Royale in 1725 but did not produce his reception painting The soldier’s revels until three years later. Throughout his brief career (he died at the age of forty on July 25th 1736), he mainly had a clientele of amateurs and received only one royal commission, shortly before his death.
2. Description of the drawing and related artworks
Pater had adopted his master Watteau's method of composition. His study drawings were carefully glued in a notebook and were used to animate his compositions.
His paintings sometimes suffer from a somewhat artificial composition, since the figures seem to be pasted one next to the other. This point has also been made about Watteau’s.
The theme of military scenes (which was at the time included in the genre of Fêtes galantes!) was one of Pater’s favourite subjects. Together with the Bathing Women...
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Old Masters Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Chalk
Le Roy Mene au Trone from Series Le Sacre de Louis XV 1722-1731
Located in Paonia, CO
Le Roy Mene au Trone from the Series Le Sacre de Louis XV (1722-1731 ) is an etching by French artist Charles Nicolas Cochin the Elder ( 1688-1754...
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French School Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Altar de St. Antonio de Padua Hand Colored Engraving 1724
Located in Paonia, CO
Anthony of Padua or Anthony of Lisbon born Fernando Martins de Bulhoes 15 August 1195 – 13 June 1231) was a Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order. He was born and raised by a wealthy family in Lisbon, Portugal, and died in Padua, Italy. Noted by his contemporaries for his powerful preaching, expert knowledge of scripture, and undying love and devotion to the poor and the sick, he was one of the most quickly canonized saints in church history, being canonized less than a year after his death. He was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius XII...
Category
Baroque Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Celestial Music - Etching by C.N. Cochin the Elder - Early 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Celestial Music is an original black and white etching on cream-colored paper, realized by Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder (1688-1754), the well-known ...
Category
Old Masters Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving of Flowering Tulip & Wild Garlic Plants
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copperplate engraving entitled "Tulipa viridiscoloris, Fritillaria iuncifolns, Allium Vrsinum" depicting flowering tulip, fritillary and wild garlic plants fro...
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Academic Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
A set of Biblical prints after the Dutch painter and engraver Gerard Hoet
By Gerard Hoet
Located in London, GB
The present collection is a set of 131 prints after Gerard Hoet, the Dutch golden age painter and engraver, depicting various biblical scenes. Hoet was a leading artist in the Classicizing Dutch Academic style, and his work is defined by history paintings, with a particular interest in mythological, classical, historical, and biblical scene, in particular Old testament scenes...
Category
Academic Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Paper, Black and White, Engraving
Cactus & Rose of Jericho Plants: A Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
A hand-colored copper plate engraving depicting flowering "Melocactos" (Turk's Cap Cactus or Mother-in-law's Cushion), "Rosa Hiericontea aperta" (Rose of Jericho Unfolded), "Rosa Hie...
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Academic Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Flowering Henbane : A Besler 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving depicting flowering "Hyosciamus albus and Hyosciamus vulgaris" (Henbane) plants from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensi...
Category
Academic Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Ancient Roman Architectural Frieze: An 18th C. Piranesi Etching
Located in Alamo, CA
This framed original 18th century etching is entitled "Fregio antico di marmo con Ippogrifi, nel cortile del palazzo della Valle" (Ancient Marble Frieze with Hippogriffs in the Courtyard of The Palace of the Valley). The etching is by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, published in Rome in 1778. It is from Piranesi's monumental work "Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcofagi, Tripodi, Lucerne, Ed Ornamenti Antichi", (Vases, candelabra, grave stones...
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Old Masters Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Flowering Jasmine and Laurel Plants: A Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper-plate engraving entitled "Gelsiminum Catalonicum, Mairana Latifollia, Euphasiaramosa Pratensis Flore Albo, Euphasia Minus Ramosa Flore Excereruleo Purpurascente", depicting flowering Jasmine, Mountain Laurel...
Category
Academic Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Sacred Scene - Original Etching after Pietro Testa - Early 18th Century
By Pietro Testa
Located in Roma, IT
Sacred Scene is an original etching on paper, realized by an anonymous artist after Pietro Testa in the early 18th Century.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
The status of preservati...
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Old Masters Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Buttercup Flowers: A Besler 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving depicting Ranunculus (Persian Buttercup) flowers from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first ...
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Academic Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Flowering Hyacinth & Calla Plants: A Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving depicting flowering "Hyacinthus Comosus Spurius" (Hyacinth), "Hyacinthus Anglicus" (Blue Hyacinth), "Palma ...
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Academic Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Ancient View of Prague - Original Lithograph - First Half of the 18th century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient View of Prague is an original modern artwork realized in Germany in the first half of the 18th century.
Original B/W lithograph on ivory paper.
Inscripted on the upper cen...
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Modern Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Richard Blome (1660-1705) - c.1710 Engraving, Bird Hunting Scene
Located in Corsham, GB
An interesting hand-coloured copper plate engraving titled 'Taking Bird with a Low Bell and Batt Fowling'. Published as part The Gentleman’s Recreations, intended for the education...
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Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Ancient View of Olmutz - Original lithograph - First Half of the 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient View of Olmutz is an original modern artwork realized in Germany in the first half of the 19th century.
Original B/W lithograph on ivory paper.
Inscripted on the lower mar...
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Modern Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Calendula Flowers: An 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by B. Besler
Located in Alamo, CA
A hand-colored copper plate engraving depicting "Calendula prolifera; Calendula lutea flore pleno; Calendula lute medioruffa" flowers from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eys...
Category
Academic Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Portrait of Man - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Man is a beautiful etching realized by an Anonymous artist active in the 18th century. Titled on the lower center "Giovanni Paisiello", wit...
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Old Masters Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Giovanni Piranesi Etching of Ancient Roman Architecture, 18th Century
Located in Alamo, CA
"Veduta del Sepolcro della Famiglia Plauzia per la Strada Che Conduce da Roma a Tivoli vicino a Ponte Lugano" from "Le Antichità Romane" (Roman Antiquities), one of the most famous works by Piranesi. "Antichita" illustrates the tombs along the Appian Way...
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Old Masters Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Engraving, Etching
Architectural View- Original Etching by C. A. Buffagnotti - Early 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Architectural is an original etching artwork on creamy paper realized by Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti in the early 18th Century.
The State of preservation is aged with diffused foxing ...
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Modern Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
18th C. Italian Architectural Engraving of a Borromini Designed Church in Rome
Located in Alamo, CA
"Pianta del Finestrone, Prospetto del finestrone con suoi ornamenti nel mezzo della naue maggiore per fianco nella Basilica di S. Gio. in Laterano" is an architectural engraving of an elevation of monumental windows with their associated columns and ornaments above an entrance to the Basilica of S. Gio. In Laterano in Rome, the Cathedral of the Most Holy Savior and of Saints John the Baptist and the Evangelist in the Lateran, also known as the Papal Archbasilica of Saint John in Lateran. It is the church of the Diocese of Rome which serves as the seat of the Roman Pontiff. The print was engraved by Alessandro Specchi (1668-1729), an engraver and architect, after a design by the Italian architect Francesco...
Category
Realist Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
San Benedetto Con Altri Nanti, religious engraving after Veronese, circa 1700
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Religious copper-line engraving by CM after Francesco Petrucci after (Paolo Caliari) Veronese. Depicts Saint Benedict and other holy figures.
Paolo Vero...
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Old Masters Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
German folk dancing, set of six engravings, circa 1720
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A series of six German engravings of couples dancing. Published by Josef Friderick Leopold in Bavaria.
260mm by 165mm (platemark)
Category
Romantic Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Zweytes Konigliches Lust Haufs - Original Etching After Paul Decker - Early 1700
By Georg Schmidt
Located in Roma, IT
Zweytes Konigliches Lust Haufs is a splendid engraving realized in the early XVIII century by the German engraver Georg Schmidt (1712-1775) after an original artwork by the architect Paul Decker. The state of preservation is good. On the left margin of the paper, there are three tears of which a deeper one in the center. Other damages were restored. On the higher right, there is a small hole and brown edge owing to a burn.
On the lower center, there is the title and the inscription “P. Decker inv. et fec. / Cum Priv. S. C. Maj”. On the lower right, “Inch. Georg Schmidt Sculps. 31 / Ieremias Wolff excud. Aug. Vind”.
The architect Paul Decker, author of the original artwork, was also an important painter, whose artworks embellished many important palaces in Berlin. He wrote an interesting treatise on architecture, published in 1711, and the book Architectura theoricopractica, published in 1720. The engraver Georg Friedrich Schmidt was one of the main representatives of German burin engraving of the XVIII century. He was well-known for making portraits and for illustrating literary works by Federico II...
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Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Scène de Bistrot - Unknow Artist After Adrian Van Ostade - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 15 x 12 cm.
Scène de bistrot is a black and white etching with burin interventions on paper realized by an anonymous artist, after the Flemish artist Adrian Van Ostade...
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Old Masters Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Robert King D.D. Stained Glass Pavement by William Fowler 1808
Located in Paonia, CO
Original hand-coloured acquatint engraving of a stained glass window in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, depicting the Bishop Robert King D. D. the last Abbot of Osney and the first ...
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Medieval Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
View Of Kinnungam - Hand Watercolored Etching by A. Leide
Located in Roma, IT
View Of Kinnungam is an original print realized in the beginning of the XVIII century by Pieter van der Aa.
Hand-watercolored etching. Includes frame 42 x 52.5 cm.
Original title,...
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Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Sleeping Nymph - Original Etching After Titian - Early 18th Century
By Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 14.5 x 20.4 cm
Sleeping Nymph is a splendid original etching on cream-colored paper, realized by Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, count of Caylus (1692-1765) in X...
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Old Masters Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Tiber river with Cornucopia, Romulus and Remus and the Wolf - Etching 1704
By Claude Randon
Located in Roma, IT
Tevere col Cornucopia e Lupa (Tiber river with Cornucopia, Romulus and Remus and the Wolf) is a wonderful original burin on laid and watermarked pape...
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Modern Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
View Of Tongling - Hand Watercolored Etching by A. Leide
Located in Roma, IT
View Of Tongling is an original print realized in the beginning of the XVIII century by Pieter van der Aa.
Hand-watercolored etching. Includes frame 42 x 52.5 cm. On the back label ...
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Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
Landscape - Soldiers on Horseback - Original Etching by F. Simonini - 1720 ca.
By Francesco Simonini
Located in Roma, IT
Original etching by Francesco Simonini (1686-1753), a well-known painter and engraver active in Italy in the first half of 18th century.
Good conditions.
This artwork is shipped fro...
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Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
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Etching
Apollo Emerging from the Waters
By Simon Thomassin
Located in Houston, TX
Antique engraving titled "Apollon Sortant Des Eaux" over 250 years old by Simon Henri Thomassin, circa 1720. Signed lower right.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white ma...
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Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
A Drunken Night Cap
By Jan van der Bruggen
Located in New York, NY
(After) JAN VAN DER BRUGGEN (Brussels c1649 1690 Paris), A Drunken Night Cap, Wine is a Mocker, mezzotint, c. 1720, with artist's name Mieris lower left in t...
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Old Masters Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
A Pair of Poppies
Located in London, GB
WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm.
Pair of Poppies
Hieronymous Lenzius, Regensburg, [1735]-1737-1745.
attractive plates, being one of the earliest examples of colour printing.
Johann Wein...
Category
Naturalistic Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Mezzotint
Apples
Located in London, GB
WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm.
Apples
Hieronymous Lenzius, Regensburg, [1735]-1737-1745.
attractive plates, being one of the earliest examples of colour printing.
Johann Weinmann (168...
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Naturalistic Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Mezzotint
Melons
Located in London, GB
WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm.
Melons
Hieronymous Lenzius, Regensburg, [1735]-1737-1745.
attractive plates, being one of the earliest examples of colour printing.
Johann Weinmann (168...
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Naturalistic Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Mezzotint
Apples
Located in London, GB
WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm.
Apples
Hieronymous Lenzius, Regensburg, [1735]-1737-1745.
attractive plates, being one of the earliest examples of colour printing.
Johann Weinmann (168...
Category
Naturalistic Early 18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Mezzotint
